BOOK II:
THE FIRST EXCURSIONS
The People came up through three worlds and settled in the fourth world, the blue world. They had been driven from each successive world because they quarrelled with each other and committed adultery. In the earlier worlds they found no people like themselves, but in the blue world they found others.
The People forgot their earlier worlds, except for the legends they told of the Old Ones. But the others, the strangers, they looked to the other worlds with wonder. They wanted to see them, walk on them. They did not know that Coyote would go with them and work to destroy them all.